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ps- You my dear are closer to being overweight than I am to being underweight.Just sayin'.

Because I'm really "and 1/2" I used 6 ft and 175lbs. and it says I am in the normal range, with a BMI of 23.7 but it would also show that with 5'11" so I don't know what sort of crack Kenny has you smoking this morning.

All I know is that I can wear fitted clothing and look neither fat nor like a skeleton. When I weighed 140 I looked like a concentration camp victim.

Because I'm really "and 1/2" I used 6 ft and 175lbs. and it says I am in the normal range, with a BMI of 23.7 but it would also show that with 5'11" so I don't know what sort of crack Kenny has you smoking this morning.

Wut?Um, at 5'11", 175lbs. your BMI is 24.4

This is the normal weight range for someone who is 5'11". (not 6' 10 years ago):"For your height, a normal weight range would be from 133 to 179 pounds."

This would put you within 4 lbs. of being overweight.I am 7 lbs. away from being underweight.

"Many people, especially in the gay community, turn to oral sex as a safer alternative in the age of AIDS. And with HIV rates rising, people need to remember that oral sex is safer sex. It's a reasonable alternative."

I decided to quit focusing on BMI a while back. All it took was one calculation to throw me into a dieting frenzy as I was on the upper side of almost being overweight.

BMI was never designed for use as an individual indicator of obesity, you know. It's used to metadata and even then you gotta factor in the population.

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"Many people, especially in the gay community, turn to oral sex as a safer alternative in the age of AIDS. And with HIV rates rising, people need to remember that oral sex is safer sex. It's a reasonable alternative."

It's my understanding that the AIDSee look is back in vogue. I get all the current info from my young gay nephew who recently moved to LA. He also indicates that tight hip huggers are back. GOOD GOD - NO! What's next? Cut off jeans shorts with excessive fringe?

meech, I don't think you're supposed to be hotlinking images. You should host them yourself on photobucket or tinypic. This is what screws up the inner workings of web forums and causes malware alerts.

Since Wentworth Miller (Prison Break) came out, some have delighted in making fun of his weight gain. I like him trim, but I also like a little junk in the trunk. I wouldn't throw him out of bed now. I look more like the way he does now. When googling pics of him, it is clear where the gain came from. In half the pics, he is carrying various Starbucks drinks. Those are loaded with calories. I began to think he was being paid by Starbucks. There were just so many of him carrying one.

On a side note-- How does one afford $500 a day for coke? Were you selling your body to rich women?

Well, my macbook is dead. Good news is, perhaps the apple store will find a fix. Bad news is this will take a week or two and its complicated to deliver it there when I'm working in another city. Good news is, I am completely backed up. And my school loaned me some smoking PC. Bad news is, I have NO PC skills havent worked on PCS in decades. Plus this loaner doesn't have the programs I need to work. And deliver some projects THIS week. And its such a loser excuse to shop around to people who are going to be waiting and ANGRY. Good news, these are first world problems, finally. So be it. I have been one computer person now for 2 years, maybe that was a poor decision? I can't deliver most of my multimedia lessons next week, for example... Striking depedency on habitual workflow, and one dedicated system and machine... I suppose I could steal and install the programmes I need, but Im not good at that and it would be a dumb thing to do on a pc and a school pc at that. Rock. Hard place... Hopefully next week tech help at school will find me a mac loaner.... But there are few of them, and they are always out on loan...

Oh heres a bullshit irony. The tech help managers are ALL on macs, and yet the school only "officially" supports pcs...

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“From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need” 1875 K Marx

Since I'm bored-- Does Ryan Seacrest want to take over all of TV and radio? He has Idol, the radio show, gave us the Kardashians, was on the Today Show, does the New Years Eve show, and now has a new game show on NBC.

I thought I was Seacrest safe, when I was watching "PBS-- Pioneers In Television." It is a series about TV series and genres. I was watching the Night Soaps and Super Hero episodes, online. Well, damn if he wasn't the narrator. Is he working 24/7 to run from something? Isn't he worried about being over exposed?

Who knows, maybe he wants an empire and billions, like Oprah. He's well on his way..... I would guess with an enormous staff and production office, they manage to keep his time commitments quite reasonable and can spread him over as many programs as will be successful. Merv Griffin had his empire and his billions.

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“From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need” 1875 K Marx

Mainstream bedrock Americans love fruitcake when the dirty backing processes rest a mystery or unspoken. Queen music as stadium anthems. The military lapping up Village People. LIBERACE (rip) Its too funny.

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“From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need” 1875 K Marx